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Dissolving   /dɪzˈɔlvɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Dissolve  v. t.  (past & past part. dissolved; pres. part. dissolving)  
1.
To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament. "Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life."
2.
To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate. "Nothing can dissolve us." "Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder." "For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another."
3.
To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften. "As if the world were all dissolved to tears."
4.
To solve; to clear up; to resolve. "Dissolved the mystery." "Make interpretations and dissolve doubts."
5.
To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. "Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie."
6.
(Law) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.
Synonyms: See Adjourn.


Dissolve  v. i.  
1.
To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
2.
To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied. "A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form."
3.
To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power. "The charm dissolves apace."


adjective
Dissolving  adj.  Melting; breaking up; vanishing.
Dissolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; an effect produced by magic lanterns.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Dissolving" Quotes from Famous Books



... way for her: the contract (which thou hast) By best advice of all our Cardinals To day shall be enlarg'd till it be made Past all dissolving: then to our Counsell-Table Shall she be call'd, that read aloud, she told The Church commands her quicke returne for Florence, With such a dower as Spaine received with her; And that they will ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... completely dispels the illusion of the play. The scenery here is not set by hand, but is moved by machinery, by means of immense hydraulic rams beneath the stage, and the changes are made with such regularity and precision that they have very much the effect of "dissolving views." The scenes themselves are the work of gifted and highly educated artists, and never degenerate into the rough daubs with which most playgoers are familiar. The building is fireproof, and is warmed and ventilated by machinery. The great central chandelier and the ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe
... degrading— None may despise it as futile or worse; Swift as it flieth, dissolving and fading, 'Tis the wing'd seed of some blessing or curse. Telescope, microscope,—which hath most wonder? Infinite great, or as infinite small? Musical silence, or world-splitting thunder?— He that made all ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... no dream from no single sleep, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and winding in curves; making a force of Light, and an element of Thought; disseminated and indivisible, dissolving all save that point without length, breadth, or thickness. The MYSELF; reducing everything to the Soul-atom; making everything blossom into God; entangling all activities, from the highest to the lowest, in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism; hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... diminished. Certain activities carry with them no important results, because they have no definite function, but are sporadic and temporary, like the coming together of groups in the city streets, mingling in momentary excitement and dissolving ...
— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe


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